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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 1704767" data-attributes="member: 19998">Heck, while we're going wildly off topic, I have a story. Dr. Jacques Benveniste, a famous and well respected scientist, made a claim sometime ago that water had memory. IOW, if you took a substance and diluted to the point where the solution is just water, the water would have some kind memory of the substance and could still be effective. He wrote an article for Nature, a famous scientific journal published in the UK. Nature said they would print it, but only if they could come to his lab and over see an experiment. To Nature's suprise, Benveniste said yes.Nature got a team together to test the extraordinary claim. The team included the editor of Nature, several scientists, and a stage magician named James Randi. Dr. Benveniste had never heard of Randi before and was trying to find a scientist named Randi, when he found out Randi was a stage magician, he was very unhappy. Only real scientists were supposed to be there. Well, the Nature team was watching Benveniste's lab do an experament when Randi noticed that the experamentors knew which samples were supposed to be diluted water and which were supposed to be just plain water. Well, if you know which samples are which, it's posible to see something that isn't there to skew the results in your favor. Randi sugested the test tubes be coded and the code hidden so that the experamenters didn't know which was which. They got a member of the team to code the samples and they put the code in an envelope and taped it to the ceiling.Well, taping stuff to the ceiling isn't science. Dr. Benveniste was very unhappy, here was a man who isn't a scientist, and he's coding his test tubes and taping the code to the ceiling. Who does Randi think he is? Dosen't he know who Dr. Benveniste is? Well the experament was a flop, and Dr. Benveniste wasn't happy. He latter complained that his phone stopped ringing, so to speak, after this stunt. I think of this when ever I see academic snobery (even, as in the above post, when in jest). Randi calls it Ivory Tower Syndrome.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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